10 Best Doctor Who Characters In One Scene Only

8. C (Spyfall)

Doctor Who Spyfall Stephen Fry
BBC Studios

Stephen Fry's involvement in Doctor Who had been a long time coming.

Not only did he come within a hair's breadth of penning an episode in Series 2 (his script was dropped at the last minute and replaced with Fear Her), but he's Stephen goddamn Fry, an absolute national treasure - how it took until 2020 for him to appear in the show is beyond us.

On the plus side, when he did finally show up, he made the most of the small role he was given.

Fry appears in an extended scene at the start of Spyfall: Part One, where he plays "C" - the head of MI6. Of course, Mr. Fry and his marvellous voice would be the perfect person to head-up our national security, and the actor feels right at home here, reeling off spy-fi jargon and commanding the room with apparent ease.

It's just a shame he was killed off so soon, although his shock death definitely made the character even more memorable than he already was.

In this post: 
Doctor Who
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!